From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Graphical GuixSD Installer
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 17:34:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvfv3k9q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zijwkrw6.fsf@gnu.org> (Mathieu Lirzin's message of "Fri, 16 Dec 2016 12:58:01 +0100")
Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> skribis:
> John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> writes:
>
>> There is a new branch called "wip-installer" providing a graphical
>> installer for GuixSD. A screenshot of it in action is attached.
>>
>> We want GuixSD to be accessible to as many people as possible,
>> including people who may not (yet) be comfortable using bash and/or
>> guile.
>
> Amazing work! I really appreciate that this initiative lowers the
> technical knowledge required for having a GuixSD system.
>
>> It uses guile-ncurses so that will have to be installed and be
>> in your load path.
>
> Would it make sense to add a check for it at configure time and
> conditionally compile and install the modules only if 'guile-ncurses' is
> found, like what is done for 'guile-json'?
I agree (though that can be done further down the road).
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-16 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-16 11:08 Graphical GuixSD Installer John Darrington
2016-12-16 11:58 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-12-16 12:08 ` David Craven
2016-12-16 12:17 ` John Darrington
2016-12-16 12:24 ` David Craven
2016-12-16 12:33 ` David Craven
2016-12-16 12:57 ` David Craven
2016-12-16 16:34 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-12-16 15:14 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-12-16 16:13 ` Luis Felipe López Acevedo
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